(NOTE: For the purposes of this question I'm defining work as "actively contributing through some skill to a task that directly furthers your goals in your job as they are understood between you and the company/your superior")
Typing this as I start my shift at my wfm job, where I'm feeling a little lost. Part of the issue is that I basically made the job up - I used to be part time contract until I pitched my current role to a superior during a talent inquiry a few months ago and then she decided it was a good idea, so there's no well defined list of tasks I can latch onto. Don't wanna go too much into it but half my time is spent doing the stuff I was doing on contract, which takes basically little to no effort, while the other half is left unstructured to me where I'm to do research, gather and consolidate feedback about user experiences, and act as a generalist "fixer" type for intermediate level tech and workflow stuff.
I feel like I spend so much time in my workday doing nothing, and I'm both scared that will reflect poorly on me for my continued prospects at the company and guilty that I might be slacking (only because it's nonprofit, otherwise I wouldn't care). Also probably a bit of :among-drip: syndrome mixed in there because this is my first non grocery store job.
Idk I just vomited all that out there. It's a free website :shrug-outta-hecks:
I'm a nurse so my experience is probably different than a lot of others. When I worked 12 hour shifts it depended on how bad the day was where I be spending a solid 12 hours plus my lunch break just working minus maybe 10 minutes total for toilet breaks, other days I'd work around maybe 11-11.5 hours with some time for talking with coworkers, but even then I was mostly just chatting and charting. Working an 8 hour shift now, I'm going for like 8 hours every shift since a lot of the time working the 12 hour shift, my most downtime was in that final 4 hours. Generally though I'm busy for my full shift and I slow down a little bit when I have extra time so I'm not just constantly stressed on the job. Still, plenty of times where I have to give up a lunch if I want to have a remote chance of getting out on time since otherwise I'm stuck doing additional time because 12 or 8 hours just isn't enough time to do everything necessary in a day when shit hits the fan.
Oh and I get no breaks beyond my lunch break.
Jeez that's rough. My mom did 4 10 hour days a week as a PTA and even with that extra day off it was so debilitating for her, she'd just spend the whole day in bed or on the couch
:rat-salute: for your work
You gotta talk to your other nurses about staffing. We are a relatively busy unit but everyone gets at least an hour or two of down time unless things get bad.